Tibåt Mårqe

The Ark of Marqe Edition, Translation, Commentary

Abraham Tal

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9783110442328
• eBook ISBN: 9783110436433
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Tibåt Mårqe is a collection of midrashic compositions, which, in the main, rewrites the Pentateuch, expanding its sometimes laconic presentation of events and precepts. Most of it aims at providing the reader with theological, didactic and philosophical teachings, artistically associated with the passages of the Torah. Here and there poetic pieces are embedded into its otherwise prosaic text. Tibåt Mårqe is attributed to the 4th century scholar, philosopher and poet, Mårqe.
This publication of Tibåt Mårqe follows the monumental Hebrew edition of Ze'ev Ben-Hayyim, Tibåt Mårqe, a Collection of Samaritan Midrashim (Jerusalem 1988), based on a 16th century manuscript. Though he recognized the precedence of an earlier manuscript, dated to the 14th century, Ben-Hayyim was compelled to prefer the former, given the fragmentary state of the latter. He printed its fragments in parallel with the younger one, to which his annotations and discussions chiefly pertain. With the recent discovery of a great portion of the missing parts of the 14th century manuscript, this edition endeavors to present the older form of the composition. The present book may be relevant to people interested in literature, language, religion, and Samaritan studies.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Bibliography
• Abbreviations
• Book One: The Book of Wonders
• Book Two: By the Depths of the Spring of Eden
• Book Three: “Moses and the Levitical Priests said”
• Book Four: Treatise about the “Great Song”
• Book Five: Treatise about “Moses died there”
• Book Six: A Treatise composed of the Twenty Two Letters
• Index